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Author: Usama

  • Discover How to Play Blues Music with Harmonia: Simple, Fun Learning from Rizwanullah Khan

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    Preface These pages bring together the thoughts, lessons, and musical insights of Rizwan Ullah. They were first shared in conversations among students and friends, but they carry timeless lessons about sound, feeling, and the art of the blues. This is not a technical manual. It is a living record of how the blues connects the…

  • Growing mushroom over the years

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    A living Brick.Medium: Oyster Mushroom, growing over saw dust, made into a interlocking brick. Growing mushrooms has been a very fulfilling activity over the years. I started growing mushrooms as a fun thing, primarily stemming from the love of eating mushrooms, but soon it developed into a couple of important things. For me, there was…

  • #2 koi aashiq kisi mahbuba se by Faiz Ahmed Faiz

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    یاد کی راہگزر جس پہ اسی صورت سےمدّتیں بیت گئی ہیں تمہیں چلتے چلتےyaad kī rāhguzar jis pe isī sūrat semuddateñ biit ga.ī haiñ tumheñ chalte chalte ختم ہو جائے جو دو چار قدم اور چلوموڑ (رخ بدلنے کی جگہ) پڑتا ہے جہاں دشتِ (ویرانہ) فراموشی (بھول جانے کی کیفیت) کاḳhatm ho jaa.e jo do…

  • #1 Koi aashiq kisi mahbuba se by Faiz Ahmed Faiz

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    گلشنِ یاد میں گر آج دمِ بادِ صبا (ہلکی ٹھنڈی ہوا)پھر سے چاہے کہ گل افشاں (پھول بکھیرنے والی، خوشبو پھیلانے والی) ہو تو ہو جانے دو gulshan-e-yād meñ gar aaj dam-e-bād-e-sabā (gentle morning breeze)phir se chāhe ki gul-afshāñ (flower-scattering / fragrant) ho to ho jaane do عمرِ رفتہ (گزری ہوئی عمر) کے کسی طاق…

  • Unsaid

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    I often used to write for you; but now that I know, I should not let you bother with what’s going on in my mind, what do I do with my thoughts. I let them pass.  There was a time I used to feel that I may end up meeting you somewhere, I often used…

  • A model to live life

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    I am often thinking of a model of life that, in my view, is closer to my nature. In my model, life has a quality; every day and moment has a taste that you love to have. In today’s world, we are mostly consumed in doing things that don’t offer that quality. Instead, we do…

  • Progress of Man Series -visual series documenting Lahore’s quiet transformation

    Progress of Man Series -visual series documenting Lahore’s quiet transformation

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    “Progress of Man” is a visual series by Usama Ahmed documenting Lahore’s quiet transformation—from fertile farmland to concrete sprawl, and from self-sustaining communities to displaced livelihoods. It invites reflection on what we call progress, and what we leave behind.

  • Modern house built with Compressed Stabilized Earth Bricks

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    There are several ways to build with mud, or earth as you call it. What is more common in Pakistan are either burnt red bricks, which are most common, or kachi or unburnt clay bricks that we see in villages and rural areas. While red kiln bricks are attributed to environmental pollution, the kachi brick…

  • A Community made with compressed earth Bricks in Punjab

    A Community made with compressed earth Bricks in Punjab

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    Location: Pak-pattan This a fascinating project carried out in 1977. The home owners were included in the process of house making. They were given training & material to build their own homes. The homes are still in good condition today & Can be visited. I highly encourage people from academic institutions — students, teachers, and…

  • From dreaming to escape reality, To dreaming, to build reality.

    From dreaming to escape reality, To dreaming, to build reality.

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    I was wondering if there are people who consciously use dreams in the same way many people use alcohol—to escape into another world. Only recently have I started to realize that my dreaming patterns contain traces of escapism. But perhaps that’s exactly what nature intended for a powerful tool like the mind? I don’t know…